P.563-The ITU-T standard for single-ended speech quality assessment

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1924-1934

  Malfait, Ludovic ^a   Berger, Jens ^b   Kastner, Martin ^c  

^a Psytechnics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b SwissQual AG   (Switzerland)

^c OPTICOM GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Customer experience; International Telecommunication Union (ITU T) standard; Listening speech quality; Live call monitoring; No reference model; Nonintrusive method; Objective assessment

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE; INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION (ITU-T) STANDARD; LISTENING SPEECH QUALITY; LIVE CALL MONITORING; NO-REFERENCE MODEL; NONINTRUSIVE METHOD; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT;

IMAGE QUALITY; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 39649083007     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.883177     Document Type: Article

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